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Coming to Independent Lens: Through a Lens Darkly

0:30Video duration: 0:30
Aired:
02/16/15
Rating: TV-PG

Illustrating the power photography had and still has in shaping America’s views of race, Through a Lens Darkly traces 170 years of history -- from daguerreotypes in the days of slavery to more modern times — of African Americans in front of, and behind, the camera.